Noun: grape
| Singular | grape |
| Plural | grapes |
Sample Sentences
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Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.
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wild grape covering the back slope
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sea grape; tail grape
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For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.
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men mowed down by grape
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The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls. [1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XX, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 165–166:]
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I was horrified to see three grapes standing by the aircraft with the hose still connected. [1998, Approach, volume 43, number 10, page 10:]
Nouns inflected like grape
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp. See: German Nouns '
Krapfen'.
Verbs referencing "grape"
Spanish Nouns
grapa, German Nouns
Krapfen, Zulu Nouns
igilebhisi.